Sebastian Silva'nın izlediğim 2. filmi. "LA NANA" gibi mutlu bir son beklerken böyle bir sona hazır değildim. Bir bitki aşığı olarak ev çok hoşuma gitti. Sanat eseri olarak ortaya koymaya çalıştığı dahi anladım. Bir "deli" ile baş etmeyi bilmeyen çocukların çocuk sahibi olmakta çok kararı olmaları bir zıtlık sanırım. "Psikopos"la ilk olumsuz bir karşılaşma yaşadılar, sonra sokak satışında keyifli bir konuşma olsa da sonrasında hep olumsuz karşılaşmalar söz konusu oldu. Ama "Psikopos"la tüm karşılaşmalarında öfkenin ya da umursamazlığın etkisindeydi Freddy. Belki sanatını oluştururken de bu yüzeyselliği sürdürdü. Sahi sanat eserine ne oldu? La Nana"daki gibi bir etkili bir mesaj beklememeliydim. Biraz daha düşüneceğim şey var ama son bir cümle: Öfkeyle kalkan zararla oturur.

Well. When I watch a movie I am settled in when I believe the characters. In Nasty Baby I do. We are taken through a series of tableau like settings that comment subtly, slyly and directly on our social and moral spheres - the white mothers and their black babies in a funky footpath coffee shop to the sister of one of the main gay characters suggesting that maybe her brother's lifestyle is not really right. I love the scenes and settings and think, haha! This is good! They're working it all out. Yeah. But then everything changes abruptly and I call out Noooo! and leap up from the couch and go to clean my teeth - the whole works, floss, water pic, brush. By which time my bf has given up as well and turned off the telly. But next morning we agree we should give it another go. And we do. It all works. Love it.

I actually enjoyed it. It's well acted and deals with pretty realistic 'daily life' situations. In particular I was quite taken with character Freddy and his struggle with creating his unique cinematic art, while also dealing with borderline uncontrollable anger issues. And it's actually Freddie's issues that play an important part in the film and its overall message.

I was entertained every minute of this movie.

Confusing tonal shifts. But I enjoyed the dark humor and messed up moments.

another movie without a resolution at the end...

This is a funny, sweet and challenging movie addressing some topics very relevant yet underexplored for privileged millennials in the city. The plot is well-crafted and the characters endearing. Sometimes feels too real.

What just happened?!

That twist & turn is awkward, useless, unnecessary, & not matching the tone in front at all.

Stopped watching then went back and finished, truly awful and bizarre ending of roller disco???!!??

One weird movie that needs more Wiig

Wow. Just... wow. I don't think I've seen more than five films in my life that take such an unpredictable, wild turn and tonal shift like this did. I had no idea what it was about, and the first hour or so was great on itself. Engaging characters, well-acted, very humane in its storytelling. What prompted the filmmakers to do what they did? Well, it helps to bring up questions of what the "everyday" person would do in that scenario. Do I buy it? Well, I don't "not buy it". I can definitely say that I didn't dislike its execution. One doesn't really know what they would do in such a scenario. Of course, everyone would like to say "I would have done the right thing!", but we just don't know. This is the troubling question that this film wants us to answer, and honestly, I think it did an amazing job of it. In real life, everything is normal, everyone can be normal... until it's not. What DOES happen when the "stuff hits the fan"? What WOULD we do? There are many different ways that the film could've posed these questions, and sure enough many other films that I've seen have posed them in different ways, but I think the unorthodox unpredictability of this really hits those points home. I think that first normal hour is needed for this reason, and why no one should read anything about this film going into it. I can totally see why it may not have worked for so many people, but I think the execution was on point. For better or worse, the filmmakers took a huge, giant risk here (like, I cannot stress enough how HUGE that risk was), and they didn't want this film to be forgotten lightly. For my money, I left it feeling like it had made me think about a lot of different things, along with being a highly intriguing, engaging film.

(2.5/5) This movie was ok but leaves a lot to be desired. it's slow paced right up until the end and the entire movie shifts halfway through into something else. Kristen Wiig continues to fascinate me with her wide range of performances besides being incredibly funny. I heard about this movie almost 2 years ago, I wanted to see it. Read reviews that it was "messed up" now I understand why! The movie starts out as a drama, a gay couple are trying to have a kid and their friend Polly has agreed to carry the child. Throughout the first half the movie focus's on her trying to get pregnant and the gay guys neighbour who is "slow" and "not all there"keeps harassing them, and violating/bothering woman on the streets, the cops are aware of him and suggest there is nothing they can do, just leave him be. Polly becomes pregnant and the movie then takes a dramatic shift that turns the movie into a suspense thriller with a fatal ending for the crazy man. Due to a bunch of unfortunate events leading up to his death, they are faced with what to do because of their actions. The end credits don't really make sense to me though, everyones on a roller-rink having a good time!? A lot of flaws in the movie, slightly intriguing but not something i would watch again.

A pointless mishmash of indie indulgences, NB is about tedious New Yorkers who don't know how to live in the city and make awful decisions at almost every turn.

Did you ever go somewhere you did not want to go and it took forever to get there? What an awful trip this film was. Not to say the acting was not good because it was but the direction and the story itself was not meant for entertainment.Avoid this one especially if you are a Kristen Wigg fan.

Nobody can say writer/director/actor Sebastián Silva lacks creativity and ingenuity as a young filmmaker. His film Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus, while being frustratingly quirky and an overall unpleasant experience for me years back, did show that Silva had a talent for concocting pretty bizarre scenarios with an ethereal vibe in their cinematography. Silva's latest directorial effort, Nasty Baby, comes very close in giving off the same kind of young, upstart filmmaking tendencies of Jay and Mark Duplass, but it's a film that gets bogged down by a serious sense of misguided direction in its third act that almost makes the film's pillars collapse under the weight of its incredulity. Spoiling the film would be criminal, so expect me to dance around the events with great detail. The story revolves around a European immigrant named Freddy (played by Silva, who also wrote the film, as well) and Mo (Tunde Adebimpe), a gay couple who are trying to have a child of their own and enlist in the help of Polly (Kristen Wiig) to be their surrogate mother. This wouldn't be such a chore, but due to Freddy's low sperm count, his numerous attempts to impregnate Polly have resulted in nothing but frustration. Freddy is also a prolific actor and starving artist, and his latest project is a short film titled "Nasty Baby," which will show him portraying a screaming infant (just when I thought Mark Duplass's role in Creep that had him making a video for his unborn son to enjoy was the peak of strange). The bane of the trio's existence comes in the form of a mentally ill neighbor they know as "The Bishop" (Reg E. Cathey). Despite their acts of kindness, "The Bishop" continuously bothers them with his erratic and unpredictable behavior, going as far as almost sexually assaulting Polly in broad daylight. "The Bishop," while initially seeming like a petty character in the lives of these three, consistently finds himself being a common problem as they try to go about their daily lives unbothered, especially given the stressful circumstances they're currently facing. Nasty Baby is a film that works largely because it's free-form and unwilling to conform to a discernible plot for much of its runtime. It admirably rejects form, and that makes it easy to believe that this is a film about three realistic characters that are simply going about their days. The vibes the film gives are so natural and nuanced that even the quirkiness of Freddy making a video of him acting infantile is a believable inclusion, despite its most illogical entrance into whatever remnants of a plot this film bears. Nasty Baby's issue comes when it decides to introduce a plot - a considerably dark and sad one, at that - late in its third act. It's as if, in that very moment in his screenwriting, Silva forgot to really introduce a bigger, more identifiable conflict for his characters, and as a result, the final twenty minutes of the film feel very forced and rushed in attempting to introduce, remedy, and eventually solve the newly introduced problem for their characters. Had Silva stopped dawdling with the screenplay and introduced this conflict earlier, maybe at the fifty-minute mark, this film could've been the best of both worlds - a largely free-form exercise in indie, LGBT filmmaking, in addition to a compelling black comedy/drama. Instead, this feels like a film that doesn't really find its very real problem or identity until it's too late to really leave a meaningful impact. The overall effect of introducing such a huge and potentially life-altering situation to the characters with only about twenty minutes left in the film not only is unfair to the film's characters, but the audience members, who will undoubtedly emerge feeling a sense of disconnectedness and discomfort thanks to a film showcasing such a monumental event before solving it and cleaning it up like it was nothing at all. With all that in mind, Nasty Baby is just sporadically funny enough to be deemed a comedy, and wisely punctuated by enough sadder or more dramatic moments to also fittingly earn the title of a drama. Silva's quirky narrative, for the most part, doesn't get the best of him, and the trio of performances from the main cast is particularly strong, with the standout being Wiig in another performance that needs just the right amount of eccentricity and humanity to make it work (see Adventureland and The Skeleton Twins for her other strong performances at playing smart, if disconnected). This is a film that works marginally well for the most part of its runtime, teetering on the edge of silliness and sophistication until the point where it reaches its climactic arc, which should've been its second major conflict throughout. At that point, we see that Silva has been piloting a ship that he knows how to operate but doesn't really know how to steer and doesn't find out until the ship has sailed well past it's destination. Starring: Sebastián Silva, Tunde Adbimpe, Kristen Wiig, and Reg E. Cathey. Directed by: Sebastián Silva.

8.6/10 Nasty Baby is a very interesting movie that starts genre speaking as a dramedy and ends completely different, which was quite shocking but in a good way. Also the performances were really good, with Kristen Wiig being just as great as always and really did a very good work while Sebastian Silva did a very good job acting and directing the movie. It was also different from his previous films which were interesting and new, which makes this one a very impressive new outlet of his potential and work. However it had its negative things, and the ending was ambiguous it was still really good and better than I expected, really liked the movie. ~January 8, 2016~

A deft and perceptive US comedy about parenthood and friendship and the vicissitudes of modern life that culminates in a vicious and sinister final act that you really won't see coming. Unfortunately, it has such a bizarre tonal shift that I found it very hard to accept.

if you've been following this director and his style you'll know what to expect:a normal movie with a weird twist at the end.

Because Kristen Wiig!